Sea Power

Sea Power

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Royal Navy CVA-01 aircraft carrier
   
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Timeframe and Location: 1960s, 1980s, Historical
Alignment: NATO
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Royal Navy CVA-01 aircraft carrier

Description
Here begins the what if, the Royal Navy had a design in the 1960s called CVA-01, the replacement for HMS Victorious, Hermes, Eagle and Ark Royal, these were cancelled due to budget restraints along with the Type 82 destroyers.

What we have here is an approximation of what could have been in 1985, following the lessons from the Falklands war, with SeaWolf replacing the 4 SeaCat launchers, Sea Dart on the quarterdeck (Orel has none so placed in a nearby location) and CWIS Launchers, this does include the weird behind the bridge taxiway on the original designs.

Featuring A-6 Buccaneers, with their correct loadouts, internal bays, custom weapons and engine performance matching the Bucc's, all with skins by GoldLeader108

The P.139B, called Osprey in the mod is also included as the AEW aircraft, using the E-2's radar as the original FMICW radar was actually cancelled on the Nimrod AEW.3 as the pulse doppler radar was concidered superior, and a proposal was to refit those same Nimrod's with E-2 radars, all skinned by GoldLeader108

Sea Kings again, skin's by Goldleader108, are the same as standard

Phantom FG.1's, engine performance are changed from the F-4J to how the Spey's would perform low down, more acceleration but lower top speed, combined with Skyflash, slightly altered AIM-7E completes this package

This one has been a marathon, special thanks to Brothermunro, Neptune and GoldLeader108 for their assistance in this madness.

SeaLifter is required for the skins but the mod will work without them
22 Comments
Longbow  [author] Apr 19 @ 2:10pm 
is it just the 899 ones?
SSG Beard [506 IR] Apr 19 @ 12:48pm 
The 889 NAS Phantoms are all red for me. Is this a mod error or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you kindly in advance.

Love this mod. The Spey made the phantom what it always should have been.
Redacted but not so Feb 13 @ 2:56pm 
Glad I am still subbed even though I am done with orient
Longbow  [author] Feb 13 @ 10:16am 
@Redacted just wait till next main patch, got a suprise
Redacted but not so Feb 12 @ 4:42pm 
The brits get an Orel? Dang, they stealing everything, cant wait to revisit britain and see this as a museum ship instead of the belfast.
Longbow  [author] Jan 25 @ 2:03pm 
If i knew how, textures were the thing i was worst at in uni, i could probobly do a basic one once i knew how to get the base files :(
retarded-runabout Jan 25 @ 10:59am 
Hello! Loving the mod, works perfectly and it really helps make some royal navy what-if scenarios come to life. Any chance we might get a Blue/RoyalNavy skin for the F-4's though? I understand if there won't be since i can only imagine how much work you and other modders put into their work.
Longbow  [author] Jan 19 @ 12:17pm 
it would, but according to GoldLeader, its impossible without brute forcing it :(
gengis_corn Jan 19 @ 12:15pm 
If possible, just a simple color change from the green and brown decks from the orel model to a blue and grey would make it look much more NATO
TriggerMaru Jan 12 @ 2:21pm 
Yo that's wicked